spooncivic1

what is causing the ABS light to keep coming on. it will only do it occasionally, but its getting annoying. the brakes work fine (minus the squeeking)...if i turn off the car and then crank it back up it will go off for a day or so, then it will come back on

fastrunner

probably a short in one of the ABS wheel sensors, or a bad ABS computer.

BlackLudeSi

if it turns on when you start the car and does not turn off it is something in the abs unit its self. If it turns on while you are driving it is a wheel speed sensor. Hope this helps

spooncivic1

ok, it only does it while im driving

would it matter if my ebrake cables arent hooked up (previous owner) or is the sensor only on the front?

DA-nteg

My ABS lights always comes on too... It does the self-check like 100 times and then the light pops on... Soo im curious about this too

bdiddy0036

how much are wheel speed sensors??

BlackLudeSi

they were 68$ for my old lude im sure somewhere around there

LSracing94

mine did that, turned out the battery connection was weak hahaha

Dogginator

Quit guessing. Check the stored ABS computer codes. You pull these the same way that you pull a CEL.

Check out this thread:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=978933


Modified by Dogginator at 6:37 PM 1/9/2006

spooncivic1

so, wheres the plug for the ABS then? beside the CEL plug?

Dogginator

It is the same plug.

BrooX

IF you have stomped on the brakes really hard recently to make a sudden stop that may have been the problem. As far as a diagnostic goes, you could unhook the battery cables and let everything restart up again. That might do it. At least thats what I did once upon a time.

fastrunner

ABS doesn't reset like an ECU, doesn't matter if you unplug the battery.

GserpleaSR

it would help if could get a scanner and pull some codes! about 50 things could cause that light to come on! if it comes on when you start to drive its most likely a speed sensor! make sure all four are pulg in!

92gisser

mine did the same exact thing. mine was one of the rear wheel sensors...i'm sure yours is the same. gl with it, pretty simple fix.